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RAILROADS.
DIkpMoNT AIR LINZ.

s:3o A. M-k.st Tenn Mai Daily Tor wsrrvn.ou.
Springs, Allesheny srrpe. Rristol, Knoxville, Roma
si.epsr wsshinstoe q Nea of,esn. iN'i'''AA
ll24 A. N-Fsst Mail Daily FOR wsrreuton, Char
Lynchburg, Rocky Mount nanville and stations bs-
tween Lyncheurg and Dsnvile. Greensboro Raleigh.
Charlotts Atlantis BirminghAm, Monis9aery, New
York TO Atlanta oonneCton with Pullman sleepsrs
Atlanta 10 New Orleans, and Mann BOudoir Sleepers
trains Washington 20 Atlanta Does not connect for
{; and q route points sundays
StrAsburg and intsrmeliste stations, also With
through cosch 70 NSrrenton for fauauier White sui
phur Springs Connects at Riverton with \. '. r. r
5: 80 Z. M-western Express Daily for wsrrentoa,
Gordonsyila. Charlottesville. Louisville, Ctncinnsa
Route. Pullman SleeTsrs and Solid Trains Washing
ton Ia Louisville also for IynchhurS Bristol Chstta
nooga. Memphis, LATHE hoCk and all ~ lthwestera
Points Through Pullman Slcepers Washington 10
Memphis without change.
III .0p T. M.-S2uthsrn ENpress Daily Tor l-yncheurs
Aiken. Augusta Atlanta, Montgomery. New Orleans.
Texas and California. Pullman SleePers Washington
Montgomery u New Orleans Pullman SeeperS WASH
ineion TO Augusta without change also Iullns
SLEEPER. Warrington Ia oireenbner White sulphur
Springs, daily except SUNDAY.
Trains on Washington and Ohio division leave WASH
psily. arr5Se R fi s ans 10 10
NJ; Returning leave Round hill % A NJ Daily. aud
80 + n Daily EXCEPT Sunday. arriving Washington
Through trains from the south via Charlotte Dan
willie and Lyuchhurz, arrive IN Washington 10 A ".
bnrs at 10. IS A NJ and = 40 r. n. via ches and
Ohio Route aud charlottesville at 40 T. NJ. strss-
Tickets SleeJnng Car reservation and Information
furutshetSnd hagage checked al Office 300 fennsyl-
Sanln avenue and at Passenger stsuon rensy sAlia
N5 General Passenger AGENT
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Starving a Jury.

From All the Year Round
Jurymen are better on in these times than In
the good old days when it was the law to endeavor
to starve them into verdict. It Is bad enough
nOwto be put to loss OF time and money, with lit
tie or inadequate recompense, without being
starved or fined into the bargain. In the early
part OF the reign OF Henry VIII Lord Chief Justice
Reed tried an action when On circuit in which the
jury were locked up, but before giving their YER
DICT had eaten and drank, which they all con-
fessed This being reported to The judge he fined
them each heavily and took their verdict. In
Hilary term, Sixth Henry VIII. the case came up
motion to set aside the verdict on the
Ing eaten when they should have tasted,
and next remit the fines under the peculiar
circumstances OF the case. The jury averred that
they had made up their minds In the case before
they ate, and had returned into court with q YER
dict, but finding the Lord Chief Justice had "run
out TO SEQ fray" and not knowing when he might
come back, they had refreshments. The court con-
f1rned both the verdict and the fines. In ayers
Reports" case Is reported Of jury who retired
TO consider their verdict, and when they came
back the 0ailin informed the Judge that some OF
them (Which he could not depOSel had been feed
Ing while locked up Both bailin and jury were
sworn, and the pockets OF the latter were exam-
lined, when 1t appeared that they all had about
them "pippins," OF which ''Some OF them confessed
they had eaten and the others said they had not.
All were severely repr1manded, and those who had
eaten wero nned 12S. each, and those who had not
eaten were nned 6s each, ''for that they had them
In their pocket&"
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Old Boots and Shoes.
aARACTER IN RUNDOWN HEELS AND KNoCKRD-oU7


Old Boots and Shoes.
CHARACTER IN RUNDOWN HEELS AND KNoCKRD-oUT
TOES.
From the Providence Journal.
"DO you know how much character there Is to
be read in partly-worn pair Of boots or shoes?"
Said the cobler to the reporter, as he hammered q
last nail in among double row OF them on the
outer border OF the heel of boot. ''There might
be collection formed OF shoes taken from the feet
OF dozen wearerS and the dullest comprehension
would see some trait exhibited In looking them
over. There is the cowhide variety, coarse made
for work and not for ornament; its sole will be
found evenly worn. denOting phlegmat1c, steady
character, whose shoes bear him steadily and with
out nervousness to and from labor, which, not
being his own, neeas no rush or hurry. Then you
may take the better grade Of mems shoes; there's
one with each heel worn away at the back, which
denotes the brisk, energetic business man; and
the pair near by similar but with the lett heel
worn at the hack while the right one has kept its
original shape Why, II you work for that man
and some day he looks up to the Sky and says
There goes q white crow you say its very white
or you Will look for new place, because he IS a
man OF emphatic ideas which he emphasizes at
every step as he pegs down that left heel.
"Look out for that pair OF shoes all run over at
the side, and have him for your gOod-natured,
jolly. fun-lOving friend but not to look out ior
and consequently will not for another. Then
there is one pair with the toes STUDDED out.
These are owned by visionary man, whose
thoughts and eyes are away up in the clouds, so
far above earthly Things to make him an i'm.
practical man in all business matters. There are
woinen's boots too, but about the only differ
ence lies In the radical changes that
for where once the woman OF fashion
the lower classes the sensible Shoe she OF the hat
ton now wears only the cOmmon-Sense style and
TO the servant girl on her afternoon out and to a
lower class the favor1te French shoe Is rela-
gated What on earth holds more cause for patti hos
and anguish In 1naniinate form than the tiny half
worn shoes OF the little one whose footsteps we're
so few until they started back On their journey TO
the angels they left little while ago7 Many a
broken-hearted mother will part with all her dead
chdS wardrobe for chartty'S sake, but the little
shoes she will tenderiy wrap up and keep through
the years that pass between their parting and
meettnyn
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PROPOSALS
DRoPosALs FOR A HIGHWAY BRIDGE
l. e. g. ESeINEkR OFFICE,
2l36 Pennsylvsnia avenue. n. W.,

pRoPosALs FOR HIGHWAY BRIDGE
s,ss renn IS Kssast assS Sss!Ts.w NV,
hi: once uns TSEIvs W. on fu H SSaTsT
he Br.neS Of .Ss river the
f0ss sr ANA s. i;enss
;sis.ss rRTE2 aSPSs. Leu. Col o, Engineer.
Il OFFICE OF THE SUPEkrNrENpR~r OF TIE
sRArh "Ah AND DkrAhInEST BuItpISs
Sealed Proposals. in eupis. siG for ' Coal and WOOD
enclosed and addressed the OF the
Tscs;ea tbs css ns TWELVE eGfa s Il
supply The STATE Var, and Navy pep.rsm.n. Baiidins
1000 Ito ton. s1srs hard. White Ash ruru.o. Coal.
p tons White Ash Stove Coal
Kesersins the night 70 order much Of either
price
or . Ss q the FREE
the cost of the aud weighed upon
Seords, more or less. hiSEory, Mood
80 cords more or less. Spruce Pine Wood
.. the The e1S r ps
red after it is sawed and delivered. 'A'
The Coal and Mood TO DE delivered At the state.
which required and stored in the vaults by parties
TO whom the contract or contracts may be awarded at
of the Department may require.
portion any reserved and the successful bid.
der Will be REQUIRED 70 furnish bond in the sum of
the contract which may be aTaTdsd him
Passed Assistant Engineer q. SN
1y14-4s Acting Superintendent
DROPOSALS FOR CONSTRUCTING ASPHALT
III WALKS
OFFICE OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GRorNps
No. 100 PA. AVE, WASHINGTON, D. c., June 20 1857
this once MON Se EsPes @
IIE1H 1887. for constructing Asphalt Walks the
Public Grounds Forms and Specifications can Zoe OBJ
tanned at this Office The United states reserves the
ripht to reject any and all proposals
JOHN NJ. WILSON
3e2o.21 .22,23.jyl61s Colonel U s Army
DRoPosALS FOR COAL.
l. REFORM SCHOOL OF THE n. C.,
WAsHISGToS. July II, 1887.
Sealed Proposals will be received by my office,
Glover building, 1919 street northwest up To
NOON Of WEDNESDAY,, JULY TWENTIETH, 1857,
| for the delivery 1T the Reform School Of
800 1 ons Eite Ash Furnace Coal. more or less.
$50 tons hite Ash Range Coal. stove size more or
| less.
30 tons Cumberland Coal, more or less.
All 10 be the best quality, free from slate and
other impurities 10 be delivered IN quantities and
at such times may I've directed by the Superintend
ent OF the School To weigh 2,240 pounds 10 the
| be paid by contractor.
Proposals must be Endorsed Proposals Cor Coal"
Right TO reject bids waive detects is reserved.
ALEX. J. FALLS,
1yl3-dtd President Board Of Trustees.
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90. . . .
GENTLEMEN
WILL
PLEASE NOT SIT
ON THE
BILLIARD TABLES.

There was disposition when this sign was first
hung up to resent this infringement on the inner
ent and indefensible rights OF gentlemen to sit on
blizzard tables; but it was finally submitted to,
and gentlemen gradually accustomed themselves
TO SIT around on the chairs first rate.
mo Harrs me- Sra or Tree W as
tied by the Indians in seventeen hundred and
something or other, and had tre built about him
dancing in ring around the tree, hand in hand,
singing Here We go round the mulberry bush,' a
slave OF the tOastihg forefather OF Pennsylvania
capital went over into Cumberland County some
Whereand drumined up some more Indians who
came across the river anu ShOoed the other ones
away, and rescued the elder Harris While he was
yet In an undone condition The story has been
tod SO often that the mulberry has grown to be a
chestnut.
seasons here is the pretzel. three-inch pretzel,
win four kinks and two coats OF varnish, Will
pride the Harrisburg small boy to do anything.
They build brick houses here, and then cement
glass all over the brick This gives people with
diamond rings a Zig field to scratch their names
on and keep the brick from fading. Besides that,
tUe people who live in these glass houses always
have the good Old proverb in their minds and won't
throw stones, which is boon to their neghb0rs'
dogs and chickens.
There Is bridge across the Susqehanna river
mere, part OF which was manufactured so long ago
That history has forgotten when it was. It's arcnl-
lecture Is supposed To be OF the pre-Adamite order
u Is aHectlonatey referred to as the Calne-back.
IL hangs across the stream all in heap, as II 1t
nad come down with an ice flood In some dim age,
louSed Where IL Is, ana dened time and the ele-
ments ever since. History is wrong In its reasons
why the rebels did not take Harrisburg in the In
VaSon OF 1853. They had advanced to the oppo-
Site side Of the river. They saw the bridge.
win we have to take that, too7" said the
rebels.
1t being decided that they would, they went
away without Harrisburg.
There are many funny things here that you
wouldn't expect to find in town as big as this
lhat won't pave its streets, calls its alleys
avenues, and goes away from home to buy its dry
goods. One OF them is that they erect the best
deviiied crabs and the most enticfng whiskey
sOurs here that the known world can produce.
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THE DUFFY MALT WHISKEY CO.,
y21 ROCHESTER,, ny,
YES. II Is HorrEsror1sH Hor.

l. Els, 1T Is AlOTTENTOTISH Hot.
But why rave about it: You only make yourself the
more uncomfortable. and also those by whom you
KEEP KooL
Is the maxim We would teach Be kool, kautious and
serene, never forgetting that
LEVEL HEADEDNESS
is alwas at premium.
BOMBASTES
Lost his head last week and beched forth fierce
nuncamento My prices are below the lowest" It is
raeuUus method or by what circutous route he man.
aged to get below the lowest '''~--'
THERE IS BUT ONE LOWEST PRICE,
and you must go to Headquarters to getit
meet on the street will tell you that
VICTOR E. ADLER,S
TEN PER CENT CLOTHING HOUSE
is Headquarters for
FINE READY-MADE CLOTHING
And the only place where you can purchase them at
Lowest Price. Keep Kool
Mohair Coats and Vests.
Aiapaca Coats and Vests.
seersucker Coats and Vests
IN endless variety Of every grade shade and psttern
Mems Sack Suits strictly all WOOL 49, 81 and So
Mems Sack Suits blue cleSiot strictly all wool and
80 fast colors, &6 9S.
Mems Sack Suits, beautiful aud harmonious blending
OF coiors, strictly ali wool SIS Is
Mans Prs suits al WOOL $40 and UPWARD
w ce "iOt sl5 S's; p slaf .Ho Satin faenss
Boys Suits. ages - 70 Is; strictly all wool. s51S
children's Suits ages to rs years 80 upward
Mems Pan,aioons, strictly al Wool, * SO Upward.
few OF those popular for boys left ages
1t l" 10 years. three Peeoss Coat vest and pants
As0 Mems Working suit ID in Sacks and cutaw.y.
We quote few prices merely 10 give Won ~, ;5s. If
wa1 in store fo. y0n but in order
selves.
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Our Native LONELINESS.

n
TYPE OF AMERICAN BEAUTY.
From the New Orleans Pcayune.
When the people OF the United States shall be
deprived OF the constant influx OF foreign blood
from Europe they will finally develop into a fixed
and regular American type. This peculiarly will
have as It's distinguishing characteristics slender
ness OF form, disposition to great muscular
activity, extreme nervous sensitiveness remark
able quickness OF Intellectual apprehension and a
general alertneSS.
These are to great extent the characteristics
OF the American Indians, and when the white race
shall become thoroughly localized In North
America IL will conform 10 the type OF the Indians
in their chief physical qualities That the Will, ~
who have been In America for few generations
have already begun 10 assume the Indian type OF
bodily conhSuration has repeatedly been recog-
and anatOmists. The artists who are ever alive to
the pecularitieS of form have not failed to notice
eo 50 certain 4a Of figure has be-
that IL Is never omitted in any pic
torlal representations, and the typi-
cal ankee OF the carcaturiSt as we'll as the typical
Southerner Is always shown as a tall slender
muscular, nervous parsonage. 1t may not be out
OF place TO add to the testimony OF the physioo-
gst and the artist on these points that OF the COM
inercial man. which Is fully corrOborative OF their
observations An importer OF French and German
gloves said TO the writer that such articles intended
Tor the American Trade had TO be manufactured
expressly because the hands OF the Americans are
longer In proportion TO breadth than those of the
typical French and German people, and the fingers
as \ rule are longer and more slender.
Enough has been said 10 show that there will
one day be CHARACTERISTIC type Of form for the
American people, and that there Will In cOnse-
! quence Dc II type OF American beauty. Already
the American women are being recognized as the
| most beautiful in the world. The uncrowned
! queens and untitled princesSes from the United
! states are by the force OF their charms rapidly
wia1ing titits and social supremacy anon; the
O.d World ari-tOcracy. But the American wO-
nen are OILY l.. the infancy OF their reign In the
realms Oh beauty. They are TO have their charms
recognized throughout the civilized world as the
queens oi loveilncsS, and what the Egyptian wo-
men were To the world Tor many centuries from
I 2Oo0 10 1900 years ago, the American women
/ VIII be In the future
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Anne.
Anne
SUDBURY MEETING HoUsE-l653.)
Her eyes mo lila fba yiolato

SUDBURY MEETING HOUsE-1653.)
Her eyes be like the violets,
ALLOW In Sudbury lane;
When she doth SMILE her face 10 sweet
As blossoms aztec rain;
With grief think Of my gray hairs
Aud wish Inc young again.
In comes she through the dark old door
Upon this Sabbath day:
And she doth bring the tender wind
That sings in bush and tree;
And hints OF all the apple boughs
That kissed her by tine way,
Our parson stands up straight and tall.
For our dear souls to pray,
And OF the place where sinners 20
Some grewsoine things doth say:
Now she Is highest heaven to me,
So hell Is far away.
Most stiff and still the good folk sit
To hear the sermon through;
But II our God be such God,
And II these things be true,
Why did he make her then 70 fart
Why are her eyes 30 blue!
A pickering light the sun creeps in.
And finds her sitting there;
And touches soft her lilac gown.
And soft her yellow hair;
look ACROSS to that old pew.
And have both praise aud PRAYER
Oh. violets in Sudbury lane,
Amid the grasses green
This maid who stirs We with her feet
Is far more fair, ween!
wonder how my forty years
Look by her sweet sixteen!
-LIzErTE WooDwoRTH REEs
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A State Sold for S1OO. 600.
From the Brooklyn Citizen.


Only seventy Years ago large portion Of the
territory comprising the state OF Wisconsin, with
section Of Minnesota, was sold for $780, 900, and
the deed Is recorded in the New York registers
Office. The sale was made by Samuel Peters to a
syndicate, for there were syndicates In those days
as well as In this. The sale was made In January
lolI, anu the syndicate was composed OF Lewis
AyreS ana ninetynlne others. IL Is described as a
large tract OF land Ia the northwestern territory,
containing 5000. 600 acres and more. IL COM
prsed the greater portion Of the land sold in 1857
10 Jonathan Carver by the NaDdowessies tribe Of
Indians carver received 1000 acres. The de-
scripiton Is Is follows: Running from the Falls OF
ST. Anthony from the east bank or the Mississippi
nearly east AS far as the south end or Lake Pepin
"nere the Chippewa River joins the Mississippi,
anu from thence eastward flve days travel, ac-
counting 20 English miles per day, and thence
north SIX days travel at &c English miles per day.
AID from thence again TO the Falls OF ST. Anthony
There Is reserved 10 the Indians the sole right TO
nsh anu hunt on unimproved land. There is a
population OF BIZ, 4g7 In Wisconsin at this date
ana the value vi the farm products Is S727 496
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a Hint to- the Long MINDED.


said one or tie girIs about to graduate: "Ive
becn writing Hly essay every Saturday s:1.ce the
Nf.. eessh, and now have sixty-srvea pages
ad the subject Is only hail exhausted" "Na at, 5
the saDjectf" 'The Intellectual superiority OF
V over men, Good gracious, does 1t take
LA pages OF manuscript to prove tfat?r "Why
yes Then you must be on the wrong side OF the
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PENNsYLvANlA,s QUEER CAPITAL
What Strange Things They Have and
What Strange Things They DO There.

Harrisburg Correspondent Of the New York Sun.
The funniest thing isn't frog. 1t is Harris
burg. They serve oysters for dessert here. They
eat sugar On maccaIoni They stew onions and
cucumbers together. They fry asparagus. The
piece de resistance of every Wednesdays dinner
here Is sauerkraut unless there is funeral in the
house. They never kraut the mourners In Harris
burg. They have numerous streets which are so
narrow that II two people walked abreast on the
pavement one has to take the middle Of the street.
But they call their streets avenues. A sign on q
house on one Of these avenues reads:
LODGINGS DONE HERE.
There is $50 600 house here, the residence Of q
United States Senator which Is closed up from one
end OF the year to the other There are 40 600 In
habitants in Harrisburg. and the city is the capital
or the great Keystone State, yet there isn't a
paved street In the city. The streets are made OF
the same material the township roads are, but
they are not SO good. Three out Of every ten per-
sons one meets here are either lame or wear spec
tacles, without regard to age, sex, condition, or
color. saw man with crutch and dOuble-lenS
spectacles driving horse that was spawned and
blind OF an eye.
They have a town clock, but it only strikes
wnen IT Is twelve 1t rings whenever there's a
nre, though, but not necessarily as fire alarm.
lhere are electric alarms 1t simply rings SO the
people may all get out on the side walks In time
things is Squire McAllister's pink-eyed yellow dog
Ilge That climbs trees They have swell billiard
parlor, on the walls Of which this placard is dis
played:
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A Horrible Traffic At Paris,

London Telesraph's Paris Letter
horrible kind OF trafuc has Just been dIscov-
cred here by the river police. II is customary for
the boatmen OF the Seine TO receive Is francs for
each dead body which they ind In the river, after
they have given dus notice OF their discovery at
the prefecture o! police. This premium Is not
paid In the TWO departments adjoining the Seine,
ana tne Iarls Doatinen accordingly go down TO the
rivers ana canals In these departments tSeine-et-
Oise ana selne-et-Marne), where they receive the
bodies OF drowned people from local rtver-bank
ioaiers. ano 20" them up to the metropolis. This
KIND OF thing has been going on for some time,
anu was eniS Drought to light yesterday by the
police anu octroi agents. who examine ali the
boats coming into Paris The agents had just IN
spected boat and were going away when they
saw TWO ropes astern Of the craft These they
pulled up and found two dead bodies attached 10
them The Ooatinan then admitted that he had
patio nve francs for each body at Ashieres to a
man who had found them down the river The
ooatnen or the Seine have been frequently taken
70 task Tor wrangling with each other over the
bodies OF persons VINO have been found drowned
In The river within the precincts OF the city but
TINS IS the nrst time that such remarkable spec
them.
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From the Toledo Blade
When Abraham Lincoln was clerk In q dry
goods store he sold woman little bill OF goods
amounting In value by the reckoning to S26k
away. On adding the items OF the bill again. to
make himself sure of correctness, he found that
ne nad taken o4 cents too much. It was night,
put Closing anu locking the store he started out
on ioot distance OF two or three miles, for the
mouse Of sns deirsuded customer, and delivering
vsea 10 9sL the sum whose possession had 20 much
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AUCTION SALES


TRUSTEES, SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED
PROPERTY, BEING HOUSE NO 20lS u , rREI
AND HOUSES NUMBERED S2A, S26 AND SIS
TWENTIETH STREET NORTHWEST.
By virtue Of deed Of trust to Us, recorded in -
Iber No. 81 l. folio &9a, OF the Land records 80
for the District of Columbia. and At the written "a
request Of the party secured thereby viii Offer
sale in front Of the premises. on MONDAY, the
O'CLOCK p. NJ. the following described real estate
lying and being in the city of Washington District Of
Columbia known and described - lot numbe red nine
teen upk in Babcock's recorded subdivision Of
original lots s. and To- in square numbered hun
dred and three U0) the same Is recorded In Liber
H. d. C., folio 14 in the surveyors Office for the Dis
trict Of Columbia Improved by house No. 2olS q
street northwest)
Immediately thereafter win offer original lot
numbered twenty-sx t26l, square numbered hun.
dred and one GOD. improved by houses numbered
the right to sell the said houses separately >
whole.
Terms Of sale: One half go cash: balance in two t2,
three five yearH to suit convenience OF the pur-
chaser with interest payable semi annually to be
cured by a deed of trust the property sold de-
post of 800 will be required on each piece Of prop
erty sold at time of sale. Conveyancing purchaser
cost Terms to be complied with within ten days.
trustees the right to resell at the risk and cost
OF the defauting purchaser after 1--WE days advertise
ment in paper published in the District of Co
lumbia GEORGE W. HABKNESS,
JOHN MCCIELLAND JR.,
ty1-eQNda
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ENaRAv1Na Axp D1r S1xkrso

Engfavng on metal and wood MONOGRAM . and cresta
on scala watches OK jewery Card and prSn
a's zig: sea- sngrsvng in Alits branches Book6nderl
essmpe tor marking and all kinds Of stamping material
Soao ot euyer bullion embroideEiuE kaallSs aud I'll
kinds " lodge parsphex0aliA mhlx